Todos los capítulos de Rejected and Pregnant with Alpha Twins: Capítulo 271 - Capítulo 280

~Caden's POV~The winter brings its own particular version of ordinary crisis that year, Lior contracting a fever severe enough that Amara insists firmly on close, careful monitoring for a full three days, and Caden finds himself, sitting quietly beside his son's bed through the long second night, thinking carefully about how differently this particular kind of fear registers compared to absolutely everything else the household has survived together across the past several difficult years."He's going to be perfectly fine," Selene says softly, finding him sitting there in the small hours of the night, having quietly taken over the watch from Bria's mother, who has been generously helping with the twins' care throughout this entire crisis."I know intellectually that he is. Amara has said as much clearly at least three separate times already tonight." Caden reaches over gently, checking his son's forehead carefully, the fever finally, visibly beginning to properly break at last. "I don

~Caden's POV~ Rhys announces his own significant news considerably more plainly than Petra ever had, delivering it during a routine Thursday morning briefing with the exact same characteristic economy he consistently brings to everything he does, though Caden catches, beneath the otherwise flat delivery, something subtle that suggests this particular announcement has genuinely cost him more careful consideration than his usual straightforward reports typically require. "I've been offered the formal Beta position at Hollowcrest," Rhys says, setting his notes down carefully on the desk between them. "Their current Beta is retiring fully within the coming year, and given the strong alliance we've built together over time, they've formally asked whether I might consider the transfer myself." Caden sits quietly with this significant news for a long moment, feeling the specific weight of understanding fully that Rhys, present faithfully at every single significant turn of the past four di

~Caden's POV~ The letter arrives from Hollowcrest in midsummer, formal in its opening tone but genuinely warm underneath, Rhys writing personally to report that his own transition there has settled fully and completely, the pack itself receiving him remarkably well, the specific satisfaction evident even through the careful, measured professional register he consistently maintains in all his written correspondence with them. I find myself, more often than I honestly expected to, Rhys writes, applying lessons I originally learned watching you and Selene carefully rebuild something out of genuine ruin together. Hollowcrest has its own particular version of quiet dysfunction here, nothing nearly as severe as what Cresthaven itself once survived, but enough that the very same core principles still apply cleanly. Include people properly before deciding important things for them. Believe someone before the accumulated cost becomes entirely unbearable for them. I didn't fully understand it

~Caden's POV~Asha's fifth birthday arrives together with a specific milestone Amara has been carefully anticipating for months now, the formal assessment of the twins' steadily developing Silverborn gifts now sufficiently advanced to properly warrant real documentation for the archive's growing record, and Caden finds himself, sitting quietly through the full appointment alongside Selene, watching his own daughter demonstrate something he has personally witnessed countless times before in ordinary, everyday moments, now formally catalogued and recorded for posterity."Her linguistic access to the older dialect has become fully consistent now, no longer sporadic the way it originally was back in her infancy," Amara reports carefully, reviewing her extensive notes. "She can translate fragments that Delphine regularly brings without any apparent effort at all now, and her genuine comprehension actually extends to entire concepts the dialect itself doesn't even have proper modern equival

~Caden's POV~The twins turn five years old in January, and the birthday gathering that follows, considerably larger now than their earliest celebrations had ever been, fills the entire manor with the specific warmth of a household that has genuinely grown well beyond its original shape over the years, Miriam and Edmund traveling up specially for the occasion, Petra and Marcus arriving together as a couple now, Rhys making the full three-hour drive from Hollowcrest specifically for the day, Corrick attending fully in his own right this time rather than simply as Rhys's official replacement.Caden watches the whole gathering unfold with the particular satisfaction of a man taking full, honest stock of everything the household has genuinely become over these years, and finds himself, midway through the pleasant afternoon, standing quietly beside Selene near the garden's edge, both of them simply observing everything rather than actively managing the celebration themselves for once."Fiv